A Short History of Nearly Everything

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By Bill Bryson

Bryson set out to understand the science he had ignored at school, and spent three years reading and interviewing scientists in order to explain it to himself.

The result runs from the big bang to the rise of civilisation, through chemistry, geology, palaeontology and particle physics, and is at least as interested in the people who worked it out, most of whom were odd, as in the findings themselves.

First published 2003